Kelley Bean Co Inc.

Kelley Bean Co Inc. Kelley Bean Company Division, a small business based in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, supplies dried beans and legumes to the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a prime contractor, operating exclusively in the commodity food supply market for federal food assistance and international food aid programs. The vendor competes almost entirely under small business set-asides — total small business, partial small business, and competitive set-asides dominate its award portfolio — and holds no positions on government-wide vehicles or multi-agency IDIQs.

Kelley Bean's capability footprint is narrow and specialized: dried commodity beans (great northern, navy, pinto, black, kidney, split pea, and lentil beans) packaged in consumer (24/1-pound, 12/2-pound) and bulk (50-kilogram) configurations for domestic food assistance programs, the National School Lunch Program, and international food aid under USDA commodity-purchase authority. Recent representative work includes a $3.8 million total small business set-aside delivery order from the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (awarded July 2025) for 779,520 cases of Great Northern beans in 24/1-pound packages; a $1.923 million total small business set-aside contract from AMS (awarded April 2026) for pinto beans in 12/2-pound packages; and a $2.504 million partial small business set-aside contract from AMS (awarded March 2025) covering mixed dried beans and lentils. Kelley Bean also holds two small-business-set-aside indefinite delivery contracts with AMS and the Food and Nutrition Service, each with ceilings near $765 thousand to $835 thousand, from which delivery orders are regularly issued.

Customer concentration is nearly absolute within USDA. The top five customer entities account for 72% of awards by count: the Food and Nutrition Service (76 awards, $32.8 million combined potential value), the Agricultural Marketing Service Washington Office (58 awards, plus an additional 18 awards worth $32.1 million), the Farm Service Agency Kansas City Commodity Office (56 awards, $18.6 million), the Farm Service Agency (54 awards), and the Foreign Agricultural Service (46 awards, $7.5 million). By dollar value, the Food and Nutrition Service and AMS Washington Office dominate, anchoring roughly 65% of combined potential value. Kelley Bean also works with the Kansas City Commodity Office, Food for Progress, and smaller USDA sub-offices, but no agency outside USDA appears in the award record.

The vendor's activity trajectory shows modest growth over the past five years — eight awards in 2022 to a peak of sixteen in 2024, declining to nine in 2025 and six in the first five months of 2026 — suggesting either a seasonal procurement pattern or contraction. The recompete cliff is minimal: only three awards totaling $2.8 million reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. Award volume has stabilized at roughly 50 to 80 active contracts annually, with a combined potential value of $129 million across all 401 prime awards on record. However, obligated dollars ($166.1 million) exceed potential value by 29%, indicating that actual invoiced performance substantially exceeds ceiling estimates — a sign of steady, high-volume commodity throughput. NAICS coding reflects the commodity-food nature of the work: All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing (139 awards), Grain and Field Bean Merchant Wholesalers (69 awards), and Dried and Dehydrated Food Manufacturing (18 awards). PSC 8920 (Fruits and Vegetables) and PSC 8915 (Food, Oils and Fats) account for 92% of awards.

Kelley Bean operates as a pure prime contractor with no documented subcontract footprint and no partnership presence on multi-agency vehicles. The vendor's relationship with USDA is transactional and volume-based — dozens of small firm fixed-price definitive contracts issued annually from multiple USDA offices, each for specific bean varieties and packaging configurations, rather than a few large strategic vehicles. Performance locations span Nebraska (Morrill, Scottsbluff, Oakes) and Idaho (Filer, Rupert), with some delivery orders showing administrative addresses in Virginia and North Dakota. The vendor is positioned as a reliable, specialized commodity supplier to domestic food assistance and international food aid pipelines, with limited exposure to broader federal procurement and no presence in IT, services, or non-food categories.